Close your eyes and imagine a brightly-lit plain white china teapot. If you’re like me you can vividly “see” the reflections on the surface, the

Not Everyone Can Picture Things

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2022-05-14 12:30:03

Close your eyes and imagine a brightly-lit plain white china teapot. If you’re like me you can vividly “see” the reflections on the surface, the precise angle of the spout. But, much to my surprise, my friend Ed can’t conjure up any such image—there aren’t any pictures in his mind. It turns out that there are other people like Ed; the neuroscientist Adam Zeman at the University of Exeter calls their experience “aphantasia”—the absence of imagery.

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